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Author Bachmann, Günther

Title How to Successfully Encourage Sustainable Development Policy Lessons from Germany
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy Ser
Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Never trust a lesson without thinking for yourself -- 2 Germany: The basic facts -- 2.1 Key economic, ecologic and social data -- 2.2 Characteristic lines of conversations -- 2.3 Change is happening -- 2.4: Is Germany finding a way out of the stalemate? -- 3 Roots: The background of today's sustainability practise -- 3.1 Roots of the future -- 3.2 Germany's "Deep Carlowitz" and today's issues
3.3 The momentum of Gro Harlem Brundtland and her group -- 3.4 Rio: an almost lost impact -- 3.5 The mother of all failure, or a short glimpse of historical truth? -- 3.6 Going off-script: the SDG momentum -- 3.7 An overdue narrative: the Anthropocene -- 3.8 Growing roots: mindset, governance, knowledge, cultural leitmotif -- 4 Strategising: The state-of-the-art of German sustainability politics -- 4.1 A latecomer turns into a front-runner: starting points and uphill struggles -- 4.2 The German sustainable development strategy -- 4.3 Gatekeeping institutions -- 4.4 Administrative architecture
4.5 Architecture of the social context -- 4.6 The momentum created by the German Sustainability Awards -- 4.7 The role of science and research -- 4.8 On the move: the future of sustainability strategies -- 5 Keystone: The German energy transition -- 5.1 The keystone of all sustainable development -- 5.2 Facts on German climate policies -- 5.3 The European Green Deal is an accelerator -- 5.4 Denuclearisation, a case of German transformative policies -- 5.5 The nuclear "perhaps" and other mirages -- 5.6 Goal washing -- 5.7 Rediscovering nature -- 6 Value: The undervalued component -- 6.1 Value
6.2 Governance and the cultural codes -- 6.3 Transformative practise -- 6.4 The culture of multistakeholder engagement -- 6.5 The benefit of a multistakeholder advisory body -- 6.6 Change of culture -- 7 Failures: An indispensable resource -- 7.1 Failure culture -- 7.2 The global machinery sputters -- 7.3 Why evergreen governance goodies fail to deliver -- 7.4 TINA lies, and what to do about this -- 7.5 The case of the European Union -- 7.6 Meet the bad and the ugly: when underachieving coincides with underchallenging -- 7.7 Shades of learning from failures
8 Moments: Facing accumulated decision needs in sustainable development in Germany -- 8.1 Moments -- 8.2 Alternative consumption -- 8.3 The window of circularity -- 8.4 The Cinderella moment in climate policies -- 8.5 Cut and COP -- 8.6 Boosting the resilient self -- 9 Democracy: No end, but rather a becoming -- 9.1 Fierce opponents or privileged partners: democracy and sustainability -- 9.2 No ducking behind the carbon poor anymore -- 9.3 One man, one vote, one carbon footprint -- 9.4 The benefit of German consensual policy -- 9.5 Power factors -- 9.6 Becoming
Notes Description based upon print version of record
10 Success: Navigating its elements
Subject Sustainable development -- Germany
Technological innovations -- Germany
Economic policy -- Environmental aspects
Sustainable development
Technological innovations
SUBJECT Germany -- Economic policy -- Environmental aspects
Subject Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000581314
9781000581317